Wombling White Tie & Tails/ The Wombling Twist

Super Womble/ The Orinoco Kid

Let's Womble To The Party Tonight/ Down At The Barbershop

FH: "(not on their regular albums, but on the compilations
as it was their last hit.)"

The Womble Shuffle/ To Wimbledon With Love

(1975?, spring 1976 more likely due to lyric) CBS 4049

Wombling Merry Christmas/ Let's Womble To The Party Tonight

(Dec. 1975?; also Dec. 1983) (Reissue) CBS A4084

Rainmaker (credited to Wellington Womble!)/ Wombling In The Rain

(Sep. 1976) CBS 4604

FH: "(by Wellington Womble - billed as a "solo"
record to announce the "split" of the band over musical differences,
etc. Not on any LP.)"

FH: "All of these were released in plain dust jackets in the UK,
however German pressings came with picture bags/sleeves."

Remember You're A Womble/ Remember You're A Womble (Dance mix)

(March 1998) (Reissue) Columbia CD 665620 2

FH: "And as for chart history for the reissue of "Remember You're A Womble" it appears to have been as follows: #33, #17, [#15], #27, #45. I've yet to get a sequence of NME charts to confirm it."

The Wombling Song/ The Orinoco Kid

Sony CD 666041 2

FH: "The cover is an enlarged
portion of the photo of Orinoco with tuba from the back of the CD
compilation. Inside is a different shot of the "band" on stage. No bonus
remix this time around (whew!), but it would have been nice to have had
the original TV theme and the remake for the new series as both of these
are as yet unreleased on disc. There's also a mail-back card for more
information on the Wombles care of this address:

The Wombles

Trinity Street

Freepost CV744

3 Alveston Place

Leamington Spa

CV32 4BR

FH (cont.):
"They ask only your name, address, postal code, sex and age (21+ is one of
their categories!) I mailed them a letter with IRC over a month ago,
enclosing a copy of the card, but I've heard nothing back yet. Perhaps
they mail only to responses within the UK...
Oh yes - the latest chart from the UK shows this single debuting at an
impressive #27 in the CIN chart! Will it make the Top 10? Top 5?"

Billy G. Spradlin: "The interesting thing about the USA
version of 'Wombling Summer Party' is that that short section of the song where the
music 'drops out' (at 2:36) has been edited out and the song is shorter at
3:18. I guess Columbia USA thought this would be very distracting to Radio
DJ's."

Remember You're A Womble/ Wellington Womble

(Sep. 1974?) Columbia 3-10033

FH: "Both "Wombling Summer Party" and "Remember You're A Womble" came with
picture bags/sleeves, although the same picture (a shot from the
"Remember You're A Womble" cover photo sessions) is used on both.
There was also a promotional insert for Canada comprising a photograph
of the Wombles at an airport, backed with the following text:

Introducing
The Wombles.
England's current T.V. sensation
Invades Canada
(courtesy of Columbia Records)
------------------------------
Warning! These creatures
need air time to survive.
------------------------------

This came with the "Wombling Summer Party" single,
which is an edit of the UK album track."

Wombling USA

FH: "This was a single made for the USA
market that was never released! I suppose we'll have to wait for the Wombles Anthology series."

The Rutles

FH: "While being a parody of the Beatles,
the drummer of this band was called Barry Wom - short for
Barrington Womble. Near the end of their parody of "All You
Need Is Love" ["Love Life"] one hears a few bars of "Let's
Womble To The Party Tonight". Their parody of "Penny Lane"
["Doubleback Alley"] also borrows a bit of the arrangement from the
TV version of the "Wombling Song"."

GRIMMS - The Womble Bashers Of Walthamstow.

FH: "An anti-Womble record done, not surprisingly,
in the style of an early Wombles record.
Not nice, but more palatable than Michael de Larrabaiti's book "The
Borribles" which has the Wombles slaughtered off one by one by a gang of
anti-heroes who will remain kids all their life as long as they don't get
their ears clipped."

[I recieved mail from F.H. about this magazine. Recently
Toshiaki Nomura saw this site and added some corrections.]

Chris Spedding was one of the guitarists in the Wombles.
GG Issue 13 is devoted to Mike Batt and the Wombles, highlighting
Spedding's work with them.

FH: "It provides a discography along with
photos of album covers and picture sleeves
(West Germany seemed to release every Womble
single in a picture sleeve!). The Italian release of "Remember You're A
Womble" included two bonus tracks: "The Wombling Song" and an *Italian*
version of "Remember You're A Womble"! Good luck trying to find a copy!
The fanzine is a handmade affair, run off on a photocopier so the photos
aren't in the best quality, and the English is a little shaky at
times, but it includes excerpts from some of the UK music magazines about
the Wombles and Mike Batt."

FH: "I met with Toshiaki [...]
when he visited Toronto on vacation/buying trip
and we compared notes on Chris Spedding (I had a live tape he didn't
have, and he presented me with a gift of a bottle of saki, plus a live
video of Chris Spedding.)"

Write to Toshiaki Nomura, 3-9 Nakadono-cho,
Nishinomiya, 662, JAPAN. The cost is US$3 per issue plus
US$2 for shipping from Japan. You can also email
Toshiaki at toshigg@bc.mbn.or.jp.

Frederick also points out that this is realy aimed at fans of
the records and those who are only acquainted with the books might
not find it as interesting.

Please note the corrections to price and that the article with
Mike Batt is Issue #13 instead of #7.

"OASIS have prevented The Wombles from releasing an album called 'Whats The
Story? (Tobermory)'. Wombles Creator Mike Batt said, 'Noel said he thought
The Wombles were cool but he didn't want anyone nicking his title'.

"Two years ago, Oasis vetoed The Smurfs from covering any of thier songs.
And Oasis' spokesman told NME: 'I'm not surprised that Noel said this, even
though the Wombles are cooler than The Smurfs.' Noel Gallagher is currently
working on new Oasis tracks at a secret UK location."

"The local FM University station here (RTRFM) sets aside a little time
every few Fridays to remember the Wombles by playing a tune from the
box-set of the first three LPs. People can ring up and vote for their
favourite Womble, and depending on who gets voted for, a different song
is played to do with that Womble. (For instance, this week
Orinoco came out on top and so they opened the show with 'The
Orinoco Kid'.. I persuaded them to play 'Tobermory's Music Machine' to
finish the show, ) However the person organising that is leaving to
go back to the UK soon, so that'll stop in a little while. *sigh* Oh
well... life goes on."